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Now, as oh almost always, we will 16 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:53,560 be bringing you episodes one and two today of the five part serial, and 17 00:01:53,599 --> 00:01:59,000 then we will bringing you episodes three through five on Friday. So if you 18 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,400 want to listen to all five parts at once, you can go ahead and 19 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:07,319 pause this episode and come back to it on Friday. But now, from 20 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:13,759 September third and fourth of nineteen fifty six, it's the Curse of Camashack Matter, 21 00:02:14,199 --> 00:02:27,039 Episodes one and two from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar Jimmy 22 00:02:27,039 --> 00:02:29,800 Sayer an allied life. Johnny, Oh, hi, Jim, how are 23 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:31,039 you? The way I feel now, the way I'm going to feel depends 24 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:35,639 on you. Okay, let's have it. Remember a guy named King Tutt 25 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,639 jimpshen mummy they dug out of a tomb full of treasure a few years ago. 26 00:02:38,719 --> 00:02:40,280 That's right, Well, they'll tell me a hell of policy on him, 27 00:02:40,439 --> 00:02:44,879 No, Jim, seriously. Now you'll also remember there was supposed to 28 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:46,879 be a curse on anybody who molested this tomb. Yeah, supposed to be. 29 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:52,159 But of course anybody knows that stuff's a lot of monkey is it Isn't 30 00:02:52,199 --> 00:02:54,479 it? At a reserve judgment, Johnny, until you hear about the Curse 31 00:02:54,520 --> 00:03:07,400 of Kamashek Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of 32 00:03:07,439 --> 00:03:12,400 the Man with the Action Packed Expenser cout America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yes 33 00:03:12,439 --> 00:03:31,680 truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the 34 00:03:31,719 --> 00:03:37,199 inter Allied Life Insurance Company Hertford, Connecticut, following as an account of expenditures 35 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:45,520 during my investigation of the cursive commashek matter expense account out of one one dollar 36 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,800 even taxi to the office of inter Allied Life to talk with Jim Sayer. 37 00:03:49,319 --> 00:03:53,360 The conference was brief and not very enlightening. I'd much rather have you seen 38 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,599 mister Turnbull and get the story from him yourself. As I said in the 39 00:03:55,599 --> 00:03:59,680 beginning, he's a very important client. What's more, to the point, 40 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:01,719 he can tell you about it much better than I can. Jim to corn 41 00:04:01,759 --> 00:04:04,800 a cliche, you're being just as clear as mud. Also, by the 42 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,439 way, he specifically asked for you. Oh how come, Well, it 43 00:04:08,439 --> 00:04:11,000 seems he liked the way you handler Parkinson case a couple of years ago. 44 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,840 Oh yeah, Emily Parkinson, the widow who died. Yeah, yeah, 45 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,399 that's the one. She was his sister. And well, go down and 46 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:20,399 see him, Johnny, I honestly can't tell you anything more than I already 47 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:24,160 have about the thing. James, you have told me nothing, but he 48 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,759 can and you can pick up a nice fee on it as a favorite to 49 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:33,480 me. Now for that nice fee, Jim promised to phone Eric Turnbull, 50 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:35,879 and I was on my way and I ran up items two and three four 51 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:40,839 dollars and twenty cents for a quick lunch and trained ver to Stanford. There 52 00:04:40,879 --> 00:04:44,759 I was met by a chaufford Carr and driven to Turnbull's house far out of 53 00:04:44,759 --> 00:04:46,399 the town on Birchbrook Road. It was set on one of the biggest, 54 00:04:46,399 --> 00:04:51,120 most beautifully landscaped pieces of property I'd ever seen. The final home looked as 55 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:55,279 though it had stood there and all it straight laces dignity for a hundred years 56 00:04:55,759 --> 00:05:00,800 and stalid against the changing world, would stand for another hundred. Contrast, 57 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:03,399 a lithe clean stoota make a golden Hawk was parked in the sweeping driveway at 58 00:05:03,399 --> 00:05:08,399 the front Haskins. The chauffeur had explained on the way that he doubled his 59 00:05:08,439 --> 00:05:11,800 butler, so I wasn't particularly surprised when he opened the door for me, 60 00:05:12,399 --> 00:05:15,839 since he received the cool about your comings. You are to go right in 61 00:05:15,879 --> 00:05:19,240 while I take the motor car to the gata. And this he glanced at 62 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:23,680 the golden hawk, quickly back of me. Then, having left the word 63 00:05:23,759 --> 00:05:36,519 unless hanging in midair, climbed back behind the wheel and drove all well, 64 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:45,639 he said God. Inside the house was a classic From the tile floorid reception 65 00:05:45,759 --> 00:05:48,319 room, with its walls of oak and a broad staircase leading to the second 66 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:53,240 floor. I could look into the huge living room, finished in polished mahogany, 67 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:56,120 with a leaded glass window at one side and thick oriental rugs on the 68 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,759 floor, a fireplace that seemed to take in a whole wall, find mahogany 69 00:06:00,759 --> 00:06:03,439 furniture that globe with a beautiful patina. Beyond that, I could see the 70 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:08,399 library, golden and walnuts, And sitting at a broad desk was a man, 71 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,240 his face red with anger, shaking his fist, and a very attractive 72 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,959 girl of twenty two or three, who stood before him, obviously distressed by 73 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:18,000 what was going on. Don't call me uncle, Eric. I'm not your 74 00:06:18,079 --> 00:06:20,279 uncle now, and by Heaven, if I have my way, I never 75 00:06:20,319 --> 00:06:24,600 will be. Y're not married to him yet, my girl, and if 76 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:30,600 I have anything to say about it, too. Ooh ooh, mister Dollar, 77 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,120 isn't it Yes, sir, mister Turndle, that's right, Come in, 78 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,680 come in, and dorothy, mister Dollar, and I wish to be 79 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:44,639 alone. The girl stood there for a brief moment, looking at the man 80 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,360 with an expression of utter futility in her face. Then, without so much 81 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,480 as a glance at me, he turned and left by the door that I 82 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,279 ad just added. Come in, mister Dollar, come in, please, 83 00:06:53,639 --> 00:06:57,360 thank you. I'm sorry about this. Somewhat embarrassing to you, I'm sure, 84 00:06:57,399 --> 00:06:59,959 but it's well, it's something i'll have to tell you about late. 85 00:07:00,399 --> 00:07:03,160 Sit down. Please, thanks. I poor you would drink. I must 86 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:05,519 confess that if he like it, he was one at the moment. No, 87 00:07:05,519 --> 00:07:09,319 no, thanks, mister Turnbull. I think I'll pass it. I 88 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:16,920 suppose it is a little early, but well, good luck now, Jim 89 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,480 Sayer and then her ally tells me you have an insurance problem. Actually not 90 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:24,639 yet. I'll be perfectly frank with you, mister Dollard. Please do I'm 91 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,839 asking you to help me, not as an insurance investigator, but as a 92 00:07:27,879 --> 00:07:30,120 man. I feel like I trust, but you don't really know me, 93 00:07:30,199 --> 00:07:34,079 mister Turnbull. Oh, on the contrary, I do very well as a 94 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,600 result of your handling in the case of my widowed sister, Emily, which 95 00:07:36,639 --> 00:07:40,040 he died a few years ago. As a matter of fact, you and 96 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,720 I met very briefly at the time. Oh yeah, yeah, of course. 97 00:07:42,759 --> 00:07:46,720 Emily Parkinson the case in vrond a lot of phony relatives who file claims 98 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,720 on her estate. That's right, And you're clever trapping those false claimants and 99 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:55,199 that cheap attempts to gain part of Emily's fortune. I understand that several of 100 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,519 them are still serving sentences. Yeah, I believe so, which is quite 101 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,040 what they deserve. If there's anything I I did test in this world, 102 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,560 it's dishonestatele Well, I guess most of us feel their way about it. 103 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:07,480 Of course we do, if we have any shred of human dignity. Yeah, 104 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:13,519 but now, what is your problem? It concerns Donald, Emily's son, 105 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,480 my nephew. I had expected him to arrive here before you. But 106 00:08:16,639 --> 00:08:20,279 suppose I go ahead, anyway, go ahead. Well, when her husband 107 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,000 died, Emily was left with a considerable estate and their only child, Donald. 108 00:08:24,399 --> 00:08:28,040 The state's worth a million now, with not too many years ahead of 109 00:08:28,079 --> 00:08:31,399 us, she wasn't well She had lavished everything on the boy, the best 110 00:08:31,399 --> 00:08:35,720 of private schools, travel to Europe, all the things that befit one of 111 00:08:35,759 --> 00:08:39,360 our social and financial status. Before she died, she carefully put all of 112 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,840 the money into a trust for Donald, a rather unique arrangement which I control 113 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,000 until he reaches the age of thirty. What would happen if he didn't survive 114 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,799 you? What had all passed to you? Oh? Yes, yes, 115 00:08:52,399 --> 00:08:56,759 but of course I have no particular need of it. When I sold Turdbull 116 00:08:56,879 --> 00:09:01,720 Enterprises some years ago, I think you can see I'm pretty well fixed investments, 117 00:09:01,759 --> 00:09:05,519 you know now. At any rate. Since his mother died, Donald 118 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,759 has been living here with me in accordance with her request that I care for 119 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,679 him, and I've been glad to do it right. Love the boy very 120 00:09:11,759 --> 00:09:13,320 dearly. How old is he? By the way, twenty five will be 121 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:16,919 twenty six in October. And what's he doing for a living? That's the 122 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,799 whole point. There's no need for him to work for a living, as 123 00:09:20,799 --> 00:09:24,200 you put it. But in college, against my better judgment, he majored 124 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:31,480 in archaeology and egyptology. What did you want him to study business? That's 125 00:09:31,519 --> 00:09:33,639 of course. Forgive me for being so blunt Dollar, But I see no 126 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,480 sense whatsoever it is taking the fortune and his father spent so many years building 127 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,320 up and squandering and a lot of Oh oh, Donald, come in, 128 00:09:41,399 --> 00:09:43,679 come in. I received word at the club you wish to see me, 129 00:09:43,759 --> 00:09:48,039 Uncle Larry. What is it this, oh, miss Dollar is my nephew, 130 00:09:48,039 --> 00:09:52,080 Donald Cruvein. We've been talking about you, Donald, oh, as 131 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,840 a result of a newspaper write mind, just read to the effect that you're 132 00:09:54,879 --> 00:09:58,559 preparing for another expedition. That's right, sir, I'm going to the ancient 133 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:03,200 city of Thebes in e Egypt. Since my trip last fall, I've done 134 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,639 a lot of reading and research in New York and London. I'm convinced I've 135 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:11,639 located the ancient tomb of the pharaoh Kamashek. Advanced party has already begun excavation. 136 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,000 I'll join them there. Do you realize the cost of this this thing, 137 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,159 Uncle Eric. It promises to be one of the most important archaeological finds 138 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,519 of the century. You mean it might be if I let you go, 139 00:10:22,159 --> 00:10:26,360 You let me go, Uncle Eric, Perhaps mister Dollar, mister, can 140 00:10:26,399 --> 00:10:28,320 hear anything I have to say to you, you see, dollar Ware finally 141 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,480 getting to the point yeah, Donald, I'll make no bones about it. 142 00:10:31,519 --> 00:10:35,200 I'm quite fed up with your wasting your time on these stupid, pointless expeditions. 143 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,279 That's not the way the museum feels about them, sir, Well, 144 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,639 that's the way I feel about ways. Please, sir Donald. Isn't that 145 00:10:41,799 --> 00:10:46,240 your collection for Yugatan that the museum recently acquired? Why yes, sir, 146 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,720 My party and I were able to I'm sure we don't care about your party 147 00:10:48,759 --> 00:10:52,000 and you. You're not only wasting your time, but your mommy, the 148 00:10:52,039 --> 00:10:54,000 mommy you off harves struggle an entire lifetime to get that money was left for 149 00:10:54,039 --> 00:10:58,399 me to spend in any way I see fit. Provided you're handling of it 150 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,200 meets my approval, and the estate passes completely into your hands, you can 151 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,480 do anything you like when it buy the Brooklyn Bridge. If you are you 152 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:09,080 probably will, But until then I am legally in control of it. And 153 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:13,399 now, finally, I have every intention of exercising that control, at least 154 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,879 to the extent of seeing you don't squander any more of it on these fool 155 00:11:15,879 --> 00:11:18,960 hardy expeditions. I take it you've made several Donald, yes, sir, 156 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,080 and he's opposed me in all of them. Because sooner or later you've got 157 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,240 to learn it. As the wealthy son of a family, it's up to 158 00:11:24,279 --> 00:11:26,240 you to carry out the tradition that's been set for you, to increase the 159 00:11:26,279 --> 00:11:30,679 fortune that's power of your family name, build even greater financial power, not 160 00:11:30,799 --> 00:11:33,360 to throw it away. Do you call my contributions to science and history a 161 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:39,679 waste of money? Out Look, my boy, there is nothing selfish about 162 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,039 my attitude in this manner, and I'm thinking only of you and your future, 163 00:11:43,399 --> 00:11:46,879 the family name that you alone are left to uphold. Well, why 164 00:11:46,919 --> 00:11:50,000 don't you give up this ass nine idea of going to Egypt? No, 165 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,159 sir, what do you mean? No? Let me finish. There's no 166 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:56,120 point in you're saying anymore. Uncle, I'm going to explore the tomb of 167 00:11:56,159 --> 00:11:58,679 kamashak Colish here. I've made all the arrangements, obtain the sponsorship of the 168 00:11:58,759 --> 00:12:01,799 music, notified the universities that are interested in my work. I say you're 169 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,440 not going, and I say I am, sir, you young fool. 170 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,240 Don't you realize that I'm in a position to cut you off with out a 171 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:11,960 penny? If you think I care, Uncle, Eric, you're crazy, 172 00:12:13,039 --> 00:12:15,799 and by heaven I will so help me. Donald. I've tried to avoid 173 00:12:15,799 --> 00:12:18,519 this kind of situation, but you and your idiotic bullheadedness you're run a disregard 174 00:12:18,519 --> 00:12:22,480 with the responsibility and importance of your family social status, have made it inevitable. 175 00:12:24,039 --> 00:12:24,919 Now it's come in spite of all I've tried to do, and by 176 00:12:24,919 --> 00:12:28,919 Heaven, I'll cut you off without him. Wait a minute, Donald, 177 00:12:30,279 --> 00:12:37,639 where are you going Egypt? In the moment or two before Turnbull recovered his 178 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,840 poise enough to speak to me, my mind raised this whole situation offered a 179 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:45,720 big flock of wild possibilities. Obviously. The two were at sword points, 180 00:12:45,759 --> 00:12:48,360 had been for some time, apparently, and I began to wonder about this. 181 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,480 Turnbull had no need of Donald's money, yet he seemed determined to keep 182 00:12:52,519 --> 00:12:56,799 him from spending it, and now would look to me like a very worthy 183 00:12:56,799 --> 00:13:01,240 expedition. If Donald died, Turnbull had said, the estatement passed to him. 184 00:13:01,519 --> 00:13:03,639 Oh and something else. I wanted to find out about the girl who's 185 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:09,720 been there when I arrived? Why? Why? Why did I want to 186 00:13:09,759 --> 00:13:13,200 know or need any answers? What did this whole affair possibly have been to 187 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:18,240 me? I'm no family counselor, I'm and I guess I spoke that thought 188 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:22,919 out aloud. I'm an insurance investigator, yes, dollar, which is another 189 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,320 reason why I need your help in mis fair. But I just don't see 190 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,600 it, mister turn afraid I must apologize for that little scene a moment ago. 191 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:31,200 Now there's no need to. It was interesting, to say the least. 192 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,519 Well, we didn't touch on the one thing that I wanted you to 193 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:41,000 know about that girl. Are of the hotnesses so called fiance? Oh, 194 00:13:41,039 --> 00:13:45,159 thanks to a generous allowance plus fees from the museum and some of the universities, 195 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,720 Donald's insured his life for one hundred thousand dollars, fifty thousand for the 196 00:13:48,799 --> 00:13:54,720 museum and a like amount for the girl through inner Allie. Yes, I'll 197 00:13:54,720 --> 00:14:00,360 put it to your bluntly. She has prodded him to go on these expeditions, 198 00:14:00,639 --> 00:14:03,360 and I believe she somehow hopes to engineer his death during this Commashek project 199 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:11,399 in order to collect on that policy. Do I make myself clear if anything 200 00:14:11,519 --> 00:14:16,200 was clear about this situation, I certainly couldn't see that more things had come 201 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,080 flying at me from on the left field during the past half hour than I 202 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:22,600 could cope with, and I wanted time to organize some kind of thinking. 203 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,399 So I used a corny old device glance at my watch, said something about 204 00:14:26,399 --> 00:14:30,320 being late for an appointment back in Hyford. I apologize, promise to talk 205 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,200 with him again tomorrow when there'd be more time. Haskins drove me back to 206 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:39,080 the station and courteously waited until the train pulled in and then left. And 207 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,720 it was then I noticed a little student ker golden hawk that I'd seen at 208 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,480 the house pull up beside the platform, and the girl, Dorothy Harkness, 209 00:14:43,559 --> 00:14:48,559 jumped out and ran over to it. Mister Donald, I had to wait 210 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,360 for Haskins to leave so we wouldn't see me. Oh, I must talk 211 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:56,000 to you. Please call me. Here's the number. Is this about Donald? 212 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,360 Yes, because of the danger he's in from mister Turnbull. No, 213 00:15:01,039 --> 00:15:22,120 and you must believe me from the cursive Comasheck, Johnny Dollar, I have 214 00:15:22,159 --> 00:15:26,360 you called the Stamford sir? Oh? Thank you operator. Hello. Oh, 215 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,320 mister Dollar, I'm so glad you've called. Well, you seem pretty 216 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,720 anxious to talk about something, Miss Harkness. I am about Donald and his 217 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,360 uncle and Donald's plan for the expedition to Egypt to dig up the remains of 218 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,039 the old Farah kamask Yes, can you come over here to see me please? 219 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:43,480 When I talked to you on the station platform a while ago, you 220 00:15:43,559 --> 00:15:46,919 said something about the cursive commasck. Yes, mister Dollar. Isn't that nothing 221 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:52,120 more or less than superstition? No, huh, I'm afraid that in this 222 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:54,519 case, mister Dollar, it can mean nothing more nor less than murder. 223 00:15:56,279 --> 00:16:06,759 I'll take the first train tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey, in 224 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:11,679 the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expenser cout America's Fabulous freelance 225 00:16:11,759 --> 00:16:30,759 insurance investigator as truly Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Winter Allied 226 00:16:30,759 --> 00:16:34,799 Life Insurance Company Crutchfield Square, Hertford, Connecticut assignment. The curs of commashek 227 00:16:34,879 --> 00:16:48,639 matter expense account continued it Am four three twenty cave to the station train fare 228 00:16:48,679 --> 00:16:52,519 from Hartford to Stamford and cab to the modest but attractive apartment of Dorothy Harkness. 229 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,399 The short trip gave me time to think. Eric Turnbull, wealthy retired 230 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,159 businessman call me in on this case. Turn Bull, uncle of young Donald 231 00:17:00,159 --> 00:17:03,960 Cronin and turning in control of a large trust fund for the boy Turnbull, 232 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,359 who was determined to prevent him from making an expedition to the tomb of Kamascheck 233 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:12,480 on the excuse that he suspected a plot against the boy's life engineered by Dorothy 234 00:17:12,519 --> 00:17:17,640 Harkness, who was not only Donald's fiance but a beneficiary of his one hundred 235 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,720 thousand dollars life policy. So a talk with Dorothy Harkness seemed very much in 236 00:17:21,799 --> 00:17:25,799 order. Oh, come in, mister Dollar. I'm so glad you were 237 00:17:25,799 --> 00:17:27,319 willing to come and talk with me. How are you, miss Harkness? 238 00:17:27,759 --> 00:17:32,680 You make me sound so old? It's Dorothy. Won't you sit down? 239 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:37,160 Huh, thank you? But before we go any furthered Dorothy, I think 240 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:41,440 you ought to understand that I'm an insurance investigator and so far know that Donald 241 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:42,960 told me his uncle was going to send for you. But there's been no 242 00:17:44,039 --> 00:17:48,599 claim file, no reason for one. I know mister Turnbull does well kind 243 00:17:48,599 --> 00:17:51,279 of unusual things now and then, and I guess this is one of them, 244 00:17:51,559 --> 00:17:53,759 unless he's trying to prevent whatever might cause a claim to be filed. 245 00:17:55,759 --> 00:17:57,799 Mister Dollar, I don't know what mister Turnbull has told you about me, 246 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:02,799 but I'm sure it wasn't good. I'm afraid we don't get along very well. 247 00:18:03,519 --> 00:18:07,480 Well, it's pretty obvious he doesn't like your interest in his nephew Donald. 248 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,960 I've known Donald since school, mister Dollar, and we hope to get 249 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:15,720 married, at least Donald does. Oh and what about you, Well, 250 00:18:15,759 --> 00:18:22,160 I don't know. I don't know. I got the impression for, mister 251 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,640 Turnbull, you were doing a pretty good job of getting Donald into your clutches. 252 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,799 That isn't the way it is at all. We've been seeing a great 253 00:18:29,799 --> 00:18:32,440 deal of each other, and Donald has asked me to marry him, and 254 00:18:32,519 --> 00:18:34,920 I'm fond of him, mister Doller, terribly fond of him, so far 255 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:41,519 as Mary is concerned. I'm not sure. What do you mean. I 256 00:18:41,599 --> 00:18:44,720 can't help wondering all the time if he isn't hoping to marry me just as 257 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,720 a well as an escape from his uncle. Huh? Would you marry him? 258 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,680 If I was sure of him, you'd be sure of an awful lot 259 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,640 of money, Dorothy, the minit he reached thirty, That is, mister 260 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:00,759 Turnbull has poisoned your mind, mister Doller. What money Donald has or may 261 00:19:00,799 --> 00:19:06,519 have, has nothing to do with it. That sort of thinking is filthy, 262 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,400 I am. I guess you mean that, don't you do? Think? 263 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,799 Yes, I think I've loved Donald ever since my father brought him into 264 00:19:14,799 --> 00:19:18,799 the museum. Your father, yes, he's curator of archaeology. Well, 265 00:19:18,799 --> 00:19:22,480 how does he feel about Donald and you? His only interested in Donald is 266 00:19:22,519 --> 00:19:26,000 in the money, the financial support he gives the museum. Oh, since 267 00:19:26,079 --> 00:19:30,880 mother died, he it's become a grasping, self centered old man whose only 268 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,599 interest is in the museum. So I don't live with him anymore. Well, 269 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,119 then, I take it he opposes any thought of your marrying Donald. 270 00:19:37,599 --> 00:19:41,839 He wants me to string him along raise money and scientific contributions. But Donald 271 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:47,480 is making something of himself instead of wasting his life in idle luxuries. Mister 272 00:19:47,519 --> 00:19:49,839 Turnbull would have it, Oh would he rather have done increase the family fortune? 273 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,920 No, no, just not spend it. That's all he cares about. 274 00:19:53,279 --> 00:19:56,839 So if anything should happen to Donald, there would be more left for 275 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:03,400 mister Eric Turnbull. And that's I called you because I'm afraid that if Donald 276 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,400 does go on this expedition to Egypt, something will happen to him. Oh 277 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,200 no, wait a minute. Turnbull is objected strenuously to this latest expedition. 278 00:20:10,559 --> 00:20:15,079 You don't know them yet, either of them. They're of the same stock, 279 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,160 and they're both stubborn, determined, and willful. And his uncle is 280 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:23,000 clever, clever enough to play on this stubbornness, capitalize on it. What's 281 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,279 supposed to mean? He knows that the surest way to keep Donald from doing 282 00:20:26,319 --> 00:20:30,319 something is to insist that he do it. It's always been that way. 283 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,200 Are you sure you haven't been reading too much psychology? It's true, And 284 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:37,039 in spite of Donald's academic maturity, he's almost like a child in some things 285 00:20:37,079 --> 00:20:44,519 emotional sometimes that that's another reason why I wonder if Donald really wants to marry 286 00:20:44,519 --> 00:20:48,240 me, if he loves me enough, or if he's simply rebelling against his 287 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:52,640 uncle. You feel in that mister Turnbull is opposing the expedition to be sure 288 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:57,599 that Donald will make it. Yes, because he doesn't quietly reason with Donald 289 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,759 talk things out. He shouts, he storms, he threatens, and then 290 00:21:00,839 --> 00:21:04,359 gets Don's back hair up. It makes him more determined to go than ever. 291 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:10,160 Wouldn't do the same to you. Maybe, so I'm afraid that if 292 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:15,359 he does go, he'll never come back. You honestly don't want him to 293 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,319 go. No, just what you think might happen to him? This curse 294 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,799 of kamishek you mentioned, I think that would be the excuse for his uncle 295 00:21:22,839 --> 00:21:26,920 to have something happen to him. What is this curse? Do you remember 296 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:32,359 King Tutankhamon? Well, I remember hearing and reading something about him, old 297 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:36,640 Egyptian pharaoh. His tomb had a curse on it too, But because they 298 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,559 believed it would yield important historical data and some of the treasure of those ancient 299 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,400 dynasties, an expedition went to the Valley of the Kings and excavated it. 300 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,880 Anyhow, really on this stuff, won't you? Because of Donald's interest in 301 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:52,160 it, I guess, But listen to me. One after another people who 302 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:56,119 were involved in that expedition died under very mysterious circumstances. Yeah, I remember, 303 00:21:56,319 --> 00:22:00,599 even Lord Carnovan himself. They said that he died from the results of 304 00:22:00,599 --> 00:22:04,759 a mosquito bite and pneumonia. But the other deaths were not so easily explained 305 00:22:04,759 --> 00:22:11,160 away, not even by able scientists and doctors. You believe in the curse 306 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:15,200 of king touched them. And now the cursive kamishik no oh, I don't 307 00:22:15,599 --> 00:22:18,920 for what you just told me there have been too many other tombs, all 308 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,119 bearing warnings, where the people who dug under them touched the treasures, and 309 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,799 them even touched the remains of the King's had no harm. It all come 310 00:22:25,839 --> 00:22:26,920 to them. Well, then, I'm afraid I don't see what you're driving 311 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:32,480 at this, Johnny. Any mysterious death of someone who's explored one of these 312 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,559 ancient tombs will be accepted as a result of the curse, don't you see. 313 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,880 It's an open door to murder, you know something. To me, 314 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,240 it all sounds a little far fetched. No, because of Eric Turnbull, 315 00:22:41,559 --> 00:22:47,640 because I'm sure he wants Donald out of the way. Where this terrible friction 316 00:22:47,759 --> 00:22:52,359 between them, this antagonism that's been building up for years, and it's reached 317 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,000 a point where either one of them would be glad to see the other out 318 00:22:55,039 --> 00:22:57,519 of the way. But Eric Turnbull is the only one who's evil enough to 319 00:22:57,559 --> 00:23:00,799 do something about it, and met the sparks kind of flew between them when 320 00:23:00,839 --> 00:23:03,200 I saw them toget him. And don't forget it would be to his uncle's 321 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,160 advantage if Donald were to die. He needs the money. Well, no, 322 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,000 I guess he does what you I'm doing all right at the museum, 323 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:12,640 learning enough to live on. And I'm happy, in my words, just 324 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:17,079 the same as I understand it, you'd collect half of Donald's life policy. 325 00:23:18,839 --> 00:23:23,799 I hate you for even thinking about such a thing. I'd hoped you would 326 00:23:23,839 --> 00:23:29,519 help me save Donald's life. Funny though, is them funny? Eric Turnbull 327 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,839 is my employer in this case, if there is a case, because he's 328 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:37,079 smart, he's clever. He's clever enough to know that calling you in would 329 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:41,640 help cover up anything he might do. My look, suppose Eric Turnbull did 330 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,880 one did plan to get rid of Donald. How I don't know, but 331 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:51,839 this I do know. And it's the thing that has scared me. On 332 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:56,079 his last expedition, And he didn't realize it until afterwards. One of the 333 00:23:56,079 --> 00:23:59,160 men in his party, a man he'd selected himself, turned out to have 334 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:03,799 been paid sep by mister Turnbull. Why not? He probably wanted somebody there 335 00:24:03,839 --> 00:24:07,480 to look after Donald without his knowing. Listen to me, This man caused 336 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,720 a couple of accidents, at least they called them, accidents that could have 337 00:24:11,799 --> 00:24:15,319 caused Donald his life. Oh no, Dorothy, look, no, no, 338 00:24:18,279 --> 00:24:19,400 no, I can see that you don't believe anything I've told you. 339 00:24:19,519 --> 00:24:22,440 Dorothy, I think you're just building up something in your imagination. You don't 340 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:30,440 believe me, but at least do this. Remember, no matter what happens, 341 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:37,759 remember what I've told you. Somebody was lying. That was a cinch. 342 00:24:37,319 --> 00:24:42,279 But who and why unless one of them really was plotting against the life 343 00:24:42,279 --> 00:24:45,880 of Donald Crowman. I couldn't get it out of my head that at least 344 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:51,599 Eric Turnbull didn't need whatever money would come from Donald's death. Dorothy Harkness, 345 00:24:51,599 --> 00:24:55,079 on the other hand, would gain what to her would be plenty. Sure, 346 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,480 nearly a Midnia wild go to Turnbull, but that would mean much less 347 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:02,119 to him than the fifty thousand insurance w her Well, there seemed to be 348 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:03,640 nothing more to say to her at the moment, so I left her and 349 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,759 took a cab back to the station. That's sign him five sixty five cents 350 00:25:07,799 --> 00:25:10,920 and telephone to the house on Birchbrook Road, and I hope that Donald would 351 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:17,519 be home and I'd have a chance to talk to him. Hello, Oh, 352 00:25:17,759 --> 00:25:21,279 mister Turnbull, this is Johnny Dollar. Oh splendid, where are you? 353 00:25:21,759 --> 00:25:22,559 Well, I'm at the station, but I was calling to try and 354 00:25:22,599 --> 00:25:26,160 to Haskins would drive the car down to meet you immediately. Well, now 355 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,160 I knew that if you thought it, oh, we would be willing to 356 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,839 take on this case. Uh yeah, sure, you just wait right there. 357 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:41,799 Haskins will be along a few minutes. Goodbye, Come in, mister 358 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:48,720 Donne, Thank you. But before we before we talk about this. Now, 359 00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:51,319 from what I've been able to learn, Donald is planning to leave for 360 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,960 Egypt immediately. I checked with a friend at the Explorers Club in New York, 361 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,279 where the boy has been staying in these past few days. Oh, 362 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,960 I thought he always stayed right here with you. Well he does, except 363 00:26:00,079 --> 00:26:02,839 but he's preparing for an expedition, and you are going to let him go. 364 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,000 How can I stop him without making him look foolish in the eyes of 365 00:26:06,039 --> 00:26:10,920 his colleagues. The museum universities are so interested in his work. Yes, 366 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,440 I have to let him go, but with you beside him there. Of 367 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,119 course, I'll expect you to be with him during the entire expedition. I 368 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:22,640 remember this. No expenses to be spared in the protection of my nephew's life. 369 00:26:22,079 --> 00:26:25,960 I had to go down to New York to see David Wilt he's my 370 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:29,720 stockbroker Harrison Dilman Company. While I was there. I stopped at my bank 371 00:26:29,759 --> 00:26:33,160 and arranged to have some five thousand in American Express Chavel's texts ready for you. 372 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,119 All you have to do is go down there and sile them pick him 373 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,359 up if you need more Cablebae, you don't waste any time. I know 374 00:26:38,519 --> 00:26:45,640 Donald he very stubborn and determined and wilful. In his present frame of mind, 375 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,599 he might pack up and take off at a moment's notice. And I 376 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,720 want to be sure you're at his side. Okay, you're the boss. 377 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,200 But mister Turnbull, yes, you still haven't told me why you think his 378 00:26:56,279 --> 00:27:00,799 life is in any more danger on this expedition than on any of the others. 379 00:27:00,799 --> 00:27:03,960 He's undertaken because that girl, Dorothy Hocness, is smart, is clever, 380 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,000 and because of something that happened on Donald's last expedition in Yucatas, Oh. 381 00:27:08,319 --> 00:27:11,039 He didn't realize it until afterwards, but one of the men in his 382 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:15,000 party, a man he'd selected himself, turned out to be a friend of 383 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,559 this Dorothy Harkness. Not twenty minutes ago I heard exactly Listen to me, 384 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,599 this man caused a couple of accidents, at least they called them accidents that 385 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:27,400 could have caused Donald his life, and mister Donald, though lacking any proof, 386 00:27:27,799 --> 00:27:30,400 I am convinced he was put up to them by the beneficiary of his 387 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:37,319 insurance policy. Dorothy Harkness. Did I say somebody was lying? Somebody had 388 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,559 to be lying, and by now that old feeling was beginning to come back 389 00:27:41,559 --> 00:27:45,160 to me. That hunch, whatever it is, that told me somebody was 390 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:51,559 planning to kill Donald Harry Turnbull, Dorothy Harkness, who something told me I'd 391 00:27:51,559 --> 00:28:11,160 better get to Donald Cronin but fast. Now here's our star to tell you 392 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,319 about tomorrow's episode of this week's story. Tomorrow Suddenly the reason for a carefully 393 00:28:15,319 --> 00:28:19,720 planned murder becomes crystal clear, and a race against death becomes a race for 394 00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:25,440 my own life. Join us, won't you? Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. 395 00:28:36,039 --> 00:28:40,799 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is storrying. Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood. 396 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,000 It is produced and directed by Jack Jehlenstone, who also wrote this week's story. 397 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,680 Be sure to join us tomorrow night at same time in station for the 398 00:28:48,720 --> 00:29:51,160 next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking Welcome back. 399 00:29:51,319 --> 00:29:56,000 Well over these first two episodes, We've gotten two different sides of the story. 400 00:29:56,559 --> 00:30:02,640 I think Dorothy's is probably the more interesting one and stands out because she 401 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:07,400 seems to be coming at this different than any other character we've heard in the 402 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:14,440 serials. Dorothy talks and presents her thinking as that of an educated and emotionally 403 00:30:14,519 --> 00:30:22,200 clear headed woman whose opinion is informed by her understanding of psychology and human relations, 404 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,079 even if she's relatively young. So she's a very distinct character. But 405 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,440 the question is is it she actually going to turn out to be telling the 406 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:36,400 truth? And we'll have to wait until Friday to find out. It certainly 407 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:41,440 is a bit of an irregular path for Johnny to enter the case, but 408 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:48,160 wealthy insurance company clients can get some irregular service, as we have heard repeatedly 409 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:52,039 in the course of the last few months. Well, now it's time to 410 00:30:52,079 --> 00:30:56,039 think our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead and 411 00:30:56,079 --> 00:31:02,519 thank Joel. Joel has been one of our Patreon support since July of twenty 412 00:31:02,559 --> 00:31:07,599 twenty one, currently supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars 413 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:11,880 and fourteen cents or more per month. Thank you so much for your support, 414 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,319 Joel, and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the 415 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:22,200 podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. And if you're listening 416 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:26,240 on YouTube, be sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel, 417 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,400 and mark the notification bill, all those great things that help YouTube channels to 418 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:36,039 grow. We'll be back on Friday with the conclusion of this week's story, 419 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:41,279 but join us back here tomorrow for dangerous Assignment, where the same as to 420 00:31:41,359 --> 00:31:45,039 Mitchel, my company is interested in first it too, the work he's doing. 421 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,000 We wouldn't want anything to happen to him. We're cutting on in for 422 00:31:48,079 --> 00:31:52,160 some very valuable information all then we're willing to pay for it better. Thanks. 423 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,720 I'll have a chick in my pucket for him two thousand times small bonus. 424 00:31:55,799 --> 00:31:59,720 And this information is in regard to Hi, Jackie Afraid and should by 425 00:32:00,079 --> 00:32:02,359 company. We handle a good many firms in this area, mister Mitchell, 426 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,640 and the company is taking an awful beating In the past six months. The 427 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,680 buses have been on my neck wanting me to do something about the situation. 428 00:32:08,839 --> 00:32:13,279 A job hanging by a thread. No no, no, not exactly, 429 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,279 but it does make a chap look bad, isn't it. Oh, I've 430 00:32:15,319 --> 00:32:20,279 had some I've picked up a few operators small fry Bush League parts and they 431 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,519 like first it things to be on the right trail. Now he's after the 432 00:32:22,559 --> 00:32:27,440 big wheel, probably behind a gigantic organization operating in the area. That's why 433 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,279 I'm here. I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 434 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:35,799 do send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot nett, follow us 435 00:32:35,839 --> 00:32:40,000 on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, 436 00:32:40,119 --> 00:32:46,240 dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise Aldohol. This is your host, Adam 437 00:32:46,359 --> 00:32:47,680 graham Son and off